AWS re:Invent 2017

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DEV330: Developing Applications on AWS with .NET Core Dec 01, 2017

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This example based session will educate you on how to develop cross-platform .NET Core applications on AWS. Through demos, we will provide a walkthrough on how to deploy .NET Core applications using various AWS infrastructure services including Amazon EC2 and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Additionally, we will showcase how to accelerate the release of your applications with the AWS's CI/CD toolchain, with services such as AWS CodeCommit and AWS CodeBuild.

DEV331: Automate and Scale Configuration Management with AWS OpsWorks Dec 01, 2017

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Using the DevOps model to treat your infrastructure environments as code enables you to automate and scale your development and production environments. Companies such as Puppet and Chef have built popular infrastructure automation solutions and have a thriving community interested in helping others succeed. AWS OpsWorks helps you succeed in using Puppet and Chef on AWS by removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting. In this session, discover how OpsWorks helps you focus on the core task of configuration management using Puppet and Chef, by setting up and maintaining your environment in just a few clicks.

DEV332: Using AWS to Achieve Both Autonomy and Governance at 3M Dec 01, 2017

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There is a constant tension between empowering teams to be agile through autonomy and enforcing governance policies to maintain regulatory compliance. Hear from Nathan Scott, Senior Consultant at AWS and James Martin, Automation Engineering Manager at 3M on how they have achieved both autonomy and governance through self-service automation tools on AWS. Learn how to avoid pitfalls with building the CI/CD team, right sizing and how to address. This session will also feature a demo from Casey Lee, Chief Architect at Stelligent on the tools used to accomplish this for 3M, including AWS Service Catalog, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline and Cloud Custodian, an open source tool for managing AWS accounts.

DEV333: Using Amazon CloudWatch for Amazon ECS Resource Monitoring at Scale Dec 01, 2017

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Learn how Mapbox improved and leveled up their Amazon ECS monitoring by using Amazon CloudWatch Events and custom metrics. We cover the events that kick off data collection, which enables our team to track the trillions of compute seconds happening every day on Mapbox's ECS clusters. The result of the data collection includes custom metrics and alarms used to inform stakeholders across Mapbox about detailed ECS usage, so development teams and finance alike can easily put a price tag on each container.

DEV334: Performing Chaos at Netflix Scale Dec 01, 2017

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Chaos Engineering is described as “the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.” Going beyond Chaos Monkey, this session covers the specifics of designing a Chaos Engineering solution, how to increment your solution technically and culturally, the socialization and evangelism pieces that tend to get overlooked in the process, and how to get developers excited about purposefully injected failure. This session provides examples of getting started with Chaos Engineering at startups, performing chaos at Netflix scale, integrating your tools with AWS, and the road to cultural acceptance within your company. There are several different “levels” of chaos you can introduce before unleashing a full-blown chaos solution. We provide a focus on each of these levels, so you can leave this session with a game plan you can culturally and technically introduce.

DEV335: Manage Infrastructure Securely at Scale and Eliminate Operational Risks Dec 01, 2017

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Managing AWS and hybrid environments securely and safely while having actionable insights is an operational priority and business driver for all customers. Using SSH or RDP sessions could lead to unintended or malicious outcomes with no traceability. Learn to use Amazon EC2 Systems Manager to improve your security posture, automate at scale, and minimize application downtime for both Windows and Linux workloads. Easily author configurations to automate your infrastructure without SSH access, and control the blast radius of configuration changes. Get a cross-account and cross-region view of what's installed and running on your servers or instances. Learn to use Systems Manager to securely store, manage, and retrieve secrets. You can also run patch compliance checks on the fleet to react to malware and vulnerabilities within minutes, while still providing granular control to users with different privilege levels and full auditability. You will hear from FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, on how they use Systems Manager to safely manage their Enterprise environment.

DEV338: Use Amazon EC2 Systems Manager to Perform Automated Resilience Testing in Your CI/CD Pipeline Dec 01, 2017

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Do you know how your applications will behave when things go wrong, either naturally or artificially? See how Expedia uses Amazon EC2 Systems Manager to perform automatic resilience tests as part of CI/CD pipelines, giving application owners confidence they are prepared for the worst.

DEV339: Using AWS Management Tools to Enable Governance, Compliance, Operational, and Risk Auditing Dec 01, 2017

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In this session, you learn how to enable governance, compliance, operational, and risk auditing of your AWS account. Approaches discussed include a combination of continuous monitoring and assessing, auditing, and evaluating your AWS resources. With AWS management tools, you can view a history of AWS API calls for your various accounts, review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines, and give developers and systems administrators a secure and compliant means to create and manage AWS resources.

DEV340: How Amazon.com Uses AWS Management Tools Dec 01, 2017

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Amazon.com enables all of its developers to be productive on AWS by operating across tens-of-thousands of team-owned AWS accounts, all while raising the bar on security, visibility and operational control. Amazon has been able to achieve these seemingly conflicting ideals by automating setup and management of these accounts at scale using AWS Management Tools such as CloudFormation, Config, CloudTrail, CloudWatch and EC2 Systems Manager. In this session, discover more about how Amazon.com built ASAP using AWS Management tools, and understand some of the decisions they made as their usage of AWS evolved over time. You will learn about the design, architecture and implementation that Amazon.com went through as part of this effort.

DEV345: Tools Won't Fix Your Broken DevOps Dec 01, 2017

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DevOps is everywhere, but too often, people think they can buy “DevOps in a box” and just sprinkle some tools and automation over your broken or slow (or even super-fast AWS) stack. But we all know that software delivery is still hard. So what is this crazy DevOps thing, and why and how does it make things better? In this session, Jez and Nicole talk about what they've found working with dozens of organizations and conducting the largest DevOps research studies to date, covering over 23,000 data points across 2,000 organizations around the world. We start with the outcomes that companies care about: organizational performance, software delivery performance, and software quality. We then define what DevOps is, how you measure it, and how the best, most innovative teams and organizations are using it to drive improvements in performance and quality.

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